General read-me. All members please read!

[fatboyjim]

As you asked, I think extremely fitting, thanks for the reply

I'm waiting for you to hit 10000 posts still, hurry!

[Computer Hobbyist]

Amazing, as of now glc has 10010 posts.

It seems like earlier this afternoon when he hit 10000, and only a couple of months ago that he reached 9000.

This is the best site I have ever found. Rarely is there a raised voice. Never is there a flame war. The advice nearly always leads to a good result.

What amazes me is the range of ages and shapes and body types populating this site. From "kids" younger than my youngest daughter to old geezers like me. Everyone's opinion is respected for what he or she says and not for who he is or what she does. Without doubt this site represents the best of what is possible in a real internet community.

drisley and the rest and all the mods should be rightly proud.
CH

[trsmystic]

Hi:
Let me say that I have nothing but thanks and praise for those that have responded to my posts for help. I'm glad that this site is so readily available. I have gotten good no, great help in the past.

Thanks all,
trsmystic

[watersilver]

All though i have the up most respect for toaster and the other moterators, "My car doesn't work, what's wrong with it" is still funny.

[homer15]

this site is fantastic... even when i don't have a problem, i learn by reading other people's misery. hehe.

[Lord Prism]

I LOVE THIS PLACE!!

[whr2206]

Best site I've found also.... without this place I'd still be using my dell (which isnt too bad) but I've learned soo much here...

[Werewolfdaddy]

If a man's/woman's worth is determined by how many people they help, then glc(and many of the other members of this forum) is a rich man by any standards. I only hope that one day I get to thank him in person for all the help he's given me.

[Web Gecko]

If there is a category award above A rating then this site gets the award for the best design, utility and quality I have seen yet in a PC technical site. Every time I come here I get the goods. If I can help anyone out from my limited knowledge I am more than happy to do so. This site is the best !

Whoever designed the Search function deserves a block of BudWeiser or his/her per monthly supply of beverage of choice
(just throw money ???). The Search function ROX as it is so easy to locate posts etc.. Not all sites build in a decent search function.

The people here are knowledgeable, helpful, friendly and positive.
Thanx Dudes !

Rock ON PC Mekkerz !!!


cheers

The Web Gecko

[TimPoet]

This site has me so stoked.
I wanna get all my friends checking it out. Feel like I may be able to fashion a business out of the things I'm learning here.
After a few builds I'm gonna check the enjoyment/profit ratio to see if it would be worth diving into. I'm tired of credit card customer service....
Would rather do something I love doing and get paid for it.

Without this site, I never would have thought this far on really believing I could make a career change.

And GLC's and the other's readiness to help is highly admirable.

We need to have a LAN party and Mekkie convention. I remember that thread.... When is COMDEX here in my home town of Vegas again?

[GerBa]

Toasters post is the reason I registerd for this forum. Recent experience on another forum set me to looking for one that doesn't tolerate abusive derogatory flaming of posters because their opinons differ from others. The advise and help here seems to be of first quality for the most part and I think I'll hang around awhile.

[Dodge7]

I have to agree, this is one of the best, if not the best, PC site I have found. It has helped me on a couple of strange problems, now I try to help on the problems and issues I know about. Plus I learn alot.

The site is also one of the best in terms of layout and forum operation... excellent. Good going all of you.

[Sauron]

And finally, here is my extremely, late, terribly late...post! Anyway, I'd also like the thank the people here for all the help they have given me. And ummm for the SD person, all you need to do is type her name in search, and you have the posts that she wrote...I just became a junior...I am offended..!

[Zasha]

Hi


I felt compelled to add my voice to the many who have congratulated this site and forum on its polite helpfulness.

May times the folks on this forum have pulled my computer out of the fire, even when I have only read the other posts!

This post from Toaster was reassuring because it ensures the continuance of mutual respect of all of us to post and take the time to answer all the frantic questions from people like me!


I would just like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone and may you all keep up the good work!!!

-Zasha

[Werewolfdaddy]

Welcome aboard.

[Netguess]

I just wanted to say im filled with undescribeable joy because I just built MY comp, no more getting kicked off the computer that I labored, and partly paid for.

[TimPoet]

Woohoo!
Congratulations, Netguess! Hey post your good news on a new thread in General Discussion so we can all celebrate with ya!
Good job!
Oh and post all the glorious components so we can revel with you.

[Alfie]

While we're on a rant on how polite everyone is,let me pipe in.
I've noticed that someone may post and state that they have a pcChips motherboard and people pipe in with that motherboard sucks,etc.
Someone else may come in with a Compaq computer and are put down.
This in itself sucks.
A computer is someones possesion,near and dear to them.
My first computer had a biostar motherboard with a p150mhz cpu,a modemmaster 33.6 modem,a 4 meg cirrus logic video card,I loved that little system,it was my pride and joy,what fun I had deleting all those useless files in Win95,first overclock attempt 166mhz!!!!
Video card burnt out,bummer,replaced it with a whopping 8 meg jaton card.
In retrospect most of that hardware wasn't state of the art,but still if someone told me my system sucked and I should have gotten this or that,I'd be hurt.
My point is it's not for us to make judgement calls,but rather help the person out of their problem,regardless of their system.
Another point to moderators if someone posts in the wrong forum and you move the post,would you mind telling the rest of us where it's been moved to,I know one could search,but to ease the burden,couldn't you add moved to...
Thanks,enough ranting!

[glc]

When we move a post, we always leave a redirect in the original forum.

[Paul O]

I would like to say as a new member I have found this bb the most useful and full of nice people.

[Alfie]

glc
This is what I mean,where is it moved to?(maybe I'm blind.
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?threadid=39580
My bad,i figured it out,I was looking for a forward in the thread,but see the new location is up on top.
I'm sorry.

[ZANEY123]

hi all

i just joined the site and it seems that we all are here just to have a good time,,,and the help so far has been great,,this is actually the first forum site that i have joined ,,so comments on quality are limited(hahahah) but it seems all you guys(gals) are nice and have alot of info to share,,,,,,,

and thank you in advance

[Jerry Falletta]

This site is great; the Admin and Mods deserve a round of applause. Many Internet boards are not run well, and they do not run as well. With civility becoming more of a rare commodity, it is heartening to see it is alive and well here at PC Mech.

[tvpincdoc]

I missed the original post (and it's either no longer there, or I haven't worked up the motivation to look hard enough?)

I can't see why anyone would get upset even if there is bad advice given. I have had a few people offer advice that was incorrect, and occasionally not because there wasn't enough information. One must always keep in mind that people are trying to help, and occasionally the suggestions aren't correct, but they aren't malicious.

I may have even unknowingly given a bit of bad advice myself from time to time...

[compusport]

I hardly ever post, but when I do come up with one that completely baffles me, I know that this is the place where I will get an immediate solution or a nudge in the right direction.
Everyone laughed their butts off at my old pc chips mobo and its integrated garbage but when they were finished wiping the tears from their eyes, they helped me. So why does this place exist?

Just read the quote, gang.

A toast to pc mech!

[compusport]

I just realized my quote isn't showing. For clarification:

" A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle" - McAuley

Make sense now?

[Werewolfdaddy]

Originally posted by compusport I hardly ever post, but when I do come up with one that completely baffles me, I know that this is the place where I will get an immediate solution or a nudge in the right direction. Everyone laughed their butts off at my old pc chips mobo and its integrated garbage but when they were finished wiping the tears from their eyes, they helped me. So why does this place exist? Just read the quote, gang. A toast to pc mech!

hey, we're not laughing; it comes more from wincing because we understand the heart ache and pain that the average pc chips user has to go through. Actually, my girlfriend has an ecs motherboard on her computer that has had zero issues. It's not as fast as some of the computers with similiar processors, but she's not into gaming or anything that really requires high end results. I still love her, though.
And, yes that is a great quote.
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[dldz]

I have one thing to say to Doc & everyone else here Thanks!

[Web Gecko]

Hey to Toaster, TimPoet, Alfie, Compusport, WeereWolfDaddy,
dldz and all the Mecher crew

Hey my PCs ain't near and dear to me, sometimes I want them far far away (like maybe in the dumpster when they really crap me off [damn Me won't shut down yet again !]). But they are interesting little ratbags at times.

I generally don't bother listing my components because of the junk I've been running on (planning to build a real system before the christmas turkey arrives - no turkey jokes plz [what the hell, why not !] ). Hey a PC Chips system would probably be a good upgrade for me !

I do agree though that people come here for help, not to read downers on their mobo or other stuff. But this doesn't seem to happen much and is usually in a light hearted spirit. I have been running a real dinosaur garage here since the second half of 2000 when I began retraining in PC hardware/Internet/networking etc [ex business programmer].
I'm a bit of a deenosaur myself as my industry experience dates back to 1982 after I finished my courses in 1980/81.

I started with a P1 75MHZ/32MB EDO/600MB Quantum Fireball/
Win 95B system which was one of the cheap IBM PC350 LPX
compact desktops (integrated S3 Trio, Intel Triton chip set - unfortunately the mobo went bad on me - Socket 5 took 75,90 and 100 P1s ). It was my first Internet machine. Then I added a P100 and upped the ram to 64MB (the Triton chip set doesn't cache above 64MB so 64MB was the optimum ram there).

My first real PC was an 8086 based XT with 20MB HDD ( WOW !)
and 64K bytes of ram (yes folks and they got to the moon on 36K
and a 14 bit processor [plus some other stuff ;O) ]) with CGA screen and ran MSDOS 3.3 plus Sound Blaster 1.0 (had cool text to speech. Anyone remember Dr Sbaitso ?). I got this in 1989.
I moved a lot after 89 and had so much junk to cart. So I got rid of the old girl but I wish I still had her now (sentimental, who me ?). Gamers are laughing now though as the graphics back then would make you cry !

Then I got an old Fujitsu P60/66 full tower with 32MB EDO/100MB HDD with Win95a (also had a 1.1 GB Fujitsu SCSI HDD with an early version of NetWare on it, 3.2 I think). Cost me only 90 bucks
and I can run 98 on it and do a whole bunch of other stuff. Then I got another old UniSys P90 (have to pop in a P133 to max it out) desktop ( Socket 5 with Triton chip set ) which was just the case/ps/fdd/P90 and mobo so I built her up and run 2x 1.2GB HDDs on it and 981E, NT4 wkstation, 2K Pro multiboot.

I have systems which go right back to the first dual floppy 8088/86 based PCs, XTs and a few Harris 286ATs and an Amstrad 286. I have an AMD 386DX40 (performs like an Intel 486DX almost) which I put online with Win 95 and Opera 5.12
(IE 5.5 will not run under 12MB and I only had 8MB installed).
I have a whole bunch of 486 systems, many of which I have put online. The 486DX4 100 is the only system worth bothering with but these days most wouldn't bother.

In fact if you are as crazy as me you can even put MSDOS online !
Yes folks the software is out there ! The challenge is waiting
for you (yes folks I do actually have A LIFE which is surprising after so many years in this industry). I have many interests besides computer stuff.

Sometimes the best way to learn hardware is to get a whole bunch of old stuff and make your mistakes there (if it blows who cares ?) so long as you don't zap yourself or take the power out during someones fave DVD). In fact I got a heap of dumpstered gear from a local PC company and learnt hardware from the ground up. But then I started in the 8 bit era so don't talk to me about junk ! But then you can if you like. I still have a fascination for the beginnings of the microprocessor ( Intel 4 bit 4004 ).

But this site and the people here have taught me heaps etc.
I am happily working away on the new ATX systems etc.. If you want a good reference, try the Muehlers Repairing and Upgrading
PCs books (very good). But of course PCMECH reigns supreme for PC advice and a good time.

I am currently running on a PII based 1st generation Celeron 266MHZ with 64MB PC66SDRAM and Seagate 6.4GB HDD
( only has 32KB L1 cache and NO L2 ! ), ABIT AH6 ATX mobo
which takes Piis up to 333MHZ and Celerons to 466MHZ. My next upgrade is the real McCoy though (P4 or fast AMD).
I am running multi systems on this one (Win Me, Red Hat Linux 7.0, NT4 Server and 2K Server).

I think TimPOet suggested a PCMECKERS LAN party (via Internet ?). Why don't we DO IT ! I have been struggleing to get my 4 node LAN up and running. I need a good sharing proxy though which works with ZA or a proxy with it's own firewalling.
I have to download the latest ZA update though (version 3).
ZA 2.6.362 seems to confuse the trusted IPs on my local zone list
with traffic coming from the Internet Zone (oh well next problem).

That's life. It's all about problem solving. So things are never bound to get dull !!! Hey DLDZ, I hope we never categorise all our old growth rain forest as firewood/planking otherwise
the greenhouse will crank up and the O2 down. I just love my O2
(rarely my PC though - I lie maybe I get a kick out of the lil ratbags occasionally).

Anyways dudes, keep the party going !

cheers

The Web Gecko

[compusport]

Actually, I think that is how alot of us ended up in this little community: we owned something that was completely buggy no matter what we did with it. I would have been just a mouse-clicker if that mobo worked right. Now i'm happy to say that I actually know how that annoying little box under my desk works. Like I said, I hardly post because someone already asked the same question and I just need to read the threads.